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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">An </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Information Item</span><span class="f_BodyText"> represents an abstraction of data. It is used in <a href="activitydiagram.htm">Activity</a>, <a href="analysisdiagram.htm">Analysis</a> and <a href="objectdiagram.htm">Object</a> diagrams. An Information Item is also represented by an </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="informationflow.htm">Information Flow</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> connector.</span></p>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The OMG UML specification </span><span class="f_BodyText">(</span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">UML Superstructure Specification, v2.1.1, p. 608</span><span class="f_BodyText">) states</span><span class="f_BodyText">:</span></p>
<p class="p_OMGText"><span class="f_OMGText">An information item is an abstraction of all kinds of information that can be exchanged between objects. It is a kind of classifier intended for representing information at a very abstract way, one which cannot be instantiated.</span></p>
<p class="p_OMGText"><span class="f_OMGText">One purpose of information items is to be able to define preliminary models, before having made detailed modeling decisions on types or structures. One other purpose of information items and information flows is to abstract complex models by a less precise but more general representation of the information exchanged between entities of a system.</span></p>




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